Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, DC was a Brazilian Catholic member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Oliveira worked at Dom Pedro II Home, a retirement facility, where she was killed in 1993 after a man obsessed with her stabbed her 44 times when she refused his advances.
Oliveira's beatification received the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, who determined that she was killed in defensum castitatis (in defense of chastity). She was beatified on 2 December 2007, with Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presiding.
In the Martyrology
- April 9 Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, religious and martyr